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 12 s. ix. SEPT. 17, mi.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 221 LONDON. SEPTEMBER 17, 1921. CONTENTS. No. 179. NOTES : Thomas Smyth of Lincoln College, Oxford, 221 Aldeburgh Chamberlains' Accounts, 222 A Webster- Middleton Play : ' Anything for a Quiet Life,' 225 Prin- cipal London Coffee-houses in the Eighteenth Century, 226 Amerongen Miss Mellon's First Marriage " Iscariot " as a Christian Name, 228 * The Monthly Miscellany ' Lombard Street : A Forty Years' Contrast, 229. QUERIES : Liverpool Slave-ship, c. 1785 Local Litera- tur.3 of Malvern A Theatre at Malvern in 1802, 229 Brothers of the same Christian Name Portrait of Eliza- beth Haffey George Farington Wellington Testimonial Clock Tower Ford MSS., Suffolk Collections, 230 Oxford Schools Story Bookplate : Charles Fox Devon- shire House Gates Name and Author of Book Wanted, 231. REPLIES : Naming of Public Rooms in Inns, 231 Heraldry, 233 " Floreat Etona ! " Christopher Saxton Runnymede Shakespeare's Cheese-loving Welshman Sound of final "a," 234 Thomas Stukeley The Dance of Salome ' Miss Croker,' by Sir Thomas Lawrence Baron Ricasoli Horse-riding Records The Pillow Club Quotations on Cheese, 235 Royal East India Volunteers House Bells Arms : Identification sought, 236 " Shuffle-wing " or " Shcvel-wing " The Swan's Dying Song, 237 Trewthe Family Petty France The ' In- gcldsby Legends ' " A bold peasantry, their country's pride " School Magazines Babylonian Astronomy, 238 Cheese Saint and Cheese Sacrifices Carols The " Chalk Farm Pistoleer " Moorish Battle-axe as Crest Authors Wanted. 239. NOTES ON BOOKS : ' The Story of Shoreham.* Notices to Correspondents. THOMAS SMYTH OF LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD. THE following particulars of the entry of an undergraduate at Oxford in 1638 are taken from papers in his handwriting, and as examples of the requirements of that time in the way of books and articles of clothing they are of interest. Thomas Smyth was the second son of John Smyth of Nibley, near Berkeley, Glos, who entered Magdalen College in 1589, and became Steward to the Berkeley family. His ' Lives of the Berkeleys ' was published by the Bristol and Glos Arch. Society iu 1S83-5, and the return of Men and Armour for Gloucestershire, which he com- pile I in 1608, by Lord Sherborne who acquired the original manuscript from Bernard Quaritch about 1887. Thomas Smyth subscribed at Lincoln College, April 13, 1638, and according to Foster (' Alumni ') " was perhaps created D.Med. 1 Nov. 1642." He died in 1684. A younger brother, George Smyth, entered at Queen's College in March, 1646-7. The first of the documents printed here is endorsed by John Smyth : bill for my son Tho : charges to Oxford, 2 Aprilis, 1638. and is headed : Aprilis 1638. 14 Car. A note of such monys I have layd out for my brother Thomas in Oxford. Receiued of my father 101. Payd as followeth. .<?. (I. Imprims deposited in his tutors hands for caution . . . . . . ..400 It payd for his entrance (layd out before by his tutor) 12 8 It left him for his matriculation . . 070 It for his gowne . . . . . . ..290 It for a paire of wosted stockings . . 4 10 It for a paire of silke garters . . . . 056 It for a yard & halfe of ribon for shoo- strings 009 It for a paire of slippers & shooes . . 046 It for a cap with a litle silver string . . 050 It for a paire of cordovan gloues . . 014 It for a knife 010 It for a leather guilt chaire . . . . 50 It for a lookingglasse & combe . . . . 024 It for a guilt hatbrush 010 It for a standishe .. . . .. 10 It for a sticke of red waxe & a blacke- lead pen . . . . . . ..005 It left with him to buy some small things, not bought . . . . ..030 Bopkes. Imprims. Smyth & Brerewood . . . . 10 It Brerewoods notes . . . . ..016 Sanderson .. ., .. .. 010 Theophrastus chare cters . . ..023 Swetonius 014 Expences by the waye & there. Imprims for our dinners at Sirencester . . 020 Item for horsemeate there. . ..010 It att Burford for on night. . . . 070 It for horsemeate there 028 It in Oxford 13 It for horsemeate there. . . . ..020 It in my returne at Burford. . ..030 It for horsemeate there. . . . ..016 It for carriage of his things from his inne to the colledge 010 Sum ..11 4 3 The second paper is also endorsed by John Smyth, as follows : what beddynge, lynens, bookes and clothes my son Thomas had to Oxford with him, on munday, 2 Aprilis. 1638. 14 Car. Afterwardes in Sept. 1640. herball of Wilkenson. melancholy. Bui-ton.
 * Lives of the English Saints ' Grinling Gibbons An